Tagged: climate change

Why are climate change skeptics often right-wing conservatives? - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 20, 2019 •

• climate change,
• conservatives,
• liberals,
• partisan,
• politics

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Why are climate change skeptics often right-wing conservatives? Yu Luo, University of British Columbia; Jiaying Zhao, University … Read More

Climate change – determination over despair - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Sep 19, 2019 •

• clean energy,
• climate change,
• Economics,
• Environment,
• geoengineering,
• Society,
• Sustainability,
• Technology

  There is much to be despondent about looking ahead to the consequences of a changing climate. But adopting Jonathan Franzen’s defeatism isn’t the best response. Reducing adverse impacts of climate change isn’t as simple as regulating automotive emissions, banning a pesticide of refrigerant, or changing to LED lights. But nor is it as … Read More

How much of climate change is natural? How much is man-made? - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 19, 2019 •

• climate change

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz How much climate change is natural? How much is man made? Mark New, University of Cape Town As … Read More

Why we won’t be heading into an ice age any time soon - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 18, 2019 •

• climate change,
• global warming,
• greenhouse gases,
• industrial pollution

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz When I studied climate in my university geography course in the 1960s, I am sure we were … Read More

How different crops or trees help strip carbon dioxide from the air - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 17, 2019 •

• carbon storage,
• climate change,
• tree planting

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Would it be helpful to undertake a nationwide and coordinated mass planting of trees and plants that are … Read More

Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 16, 2019 •

• atmosphere,
• Carbon dioxide,
• climate change,
• co2,
• Greenhouse effect,
• Greenhouse gas

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! … Read More

Regenerative farming can help grow food with less impact - Unsorted

Guest Author • Sep 11, 2019 •

• Agriculture,
• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• soil,
• soil carbon

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I would like to know to what extent regenerative agriculture practices could play a role in reducing carbon … Read More

The Loch Ness monster – and why it matters - From Past to Present

Michael Knapp • Sep 07, 2019 •

• climate change,
• eDNA,
• environmental DNA,
• Loch Ness monster,
• Science,
• vaccination

Earlier this week, my colleague Neil Gemmell released the results from his year-long hunt for the Loch Ness monster. As expected, the story attracted enormous media attention. Also, as expected, it attracted some criticism from fellow scientists pointing out how unnecessary it is to conduct such a large-scale experiment to find something that every sane person and certainly every … Read More

Fly less, Kiwis! - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Sep 05, 2019 •

• air travel,
• climate change,
• emissions

Something’s happening here: Climate crisis: ‘We don’t fly to go on holiday now – and it doesn’t cost the earth’ (The Guardian, 10 August 2019) No-fly zone: Could you give up flying if it meant protecting the planet? (Adventure.com, 21 August 2019) Travel the world without destroying it (The Conversation, 22 August 2019) Harry and Meghan … Read More

Why your backyard lawn doesn’t help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 04, 2019 •

• carbon storage,
• climate change,
• grass,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• lawn

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I read somewhere that 1,000 square metres of grass absorbs the same amount of carbon dioxide that one … Read More